The following is a guest post by Mr. Govind Rammurthy, MD & CEO, eScan.
Do you know that your online activity is being tracked by the websites that you visit? All links you visit, the forms you submit, the credentials that you fill are not a secret always. The sites that you visit maintain a record of what you did last time on their site for months and years to come.
It is all done smartly through cookies. As per Wikipedia, cookies are reliable mechanism for websites to remember information (such as items in a shopping cart) or to record the user’s browsing activity like the buttons clicked, logging in, or the pages visited by the user months or even years ago. Cookies can also store confidential information such as Username and password, credit card number or an address.
Do you know that your online activity is being tracked by the websites that you visit? All links you visit, the forms you submit, the credentials that you fill are not a secret always. The sites that you visit maintain a record of what you did last time on their site for months and years to come.
